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Post by The Doctor on Dec 16, 2007 21:19:45 GMT
Yes indeed. I've still to replace the ancient Fury from the Deep tape with the remastered CD. Evil and Power of the Daleks have been listened to many times.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 17, 2007 10:55:29 GMT
The music where Megan is walking into the sea has to be the freakiest bit of DW ever
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2007 11:00:07 GMT
Not as freaky as the Mr Oak and Mr Quill theme.
EEE-UNK EEE UNK WAHOOWAAHOOO HUHUHUHUHUHUHHUHUHUHAHA!
K-DONK! K-DONK! K-DONK! WUHUMWAHOOO K-DUNK! K-DUNK!
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Dec 17, 2007 20:13:57 GMT
That's actually a remarkably accurate textual rendition of the music.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2007 21:25:21 GMT
I've listened to the tape many, many, many times.
Had a look for the remastered cd version in the shops today on a whim. Could I find it? Could I buggery.
Perhaps it's down there...in the darkness...waiting...
A-WUMPA WUMPA WUMPA!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 19, 2007 19:45:44 GMT
Blink was just repeated on BBC3 - good lord that's such a brilliant bit of television. Steven Moffat is hands down the MVP of the new era of Doctor Who.
Andy
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Post by legios on Dec 19, 2007 20:18:15 GMT
Blink is superb. One of the real highlights of the new series for my money. A great script that knew exactly what it wanted to do and proceeded to do with aplomb. Brought out everybody else's "A" game as well - from the director, the cast, the composer. Everyone seemed to be hitting on all cylinders.
Karl
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Post by Dave on Dec 19, 2007 21:47:52 GMT
Second half of series 3 was really good, even if I didn't quite like the end to the three-parter.
edit: adbot in relevant ad shocker! It's advertising the complete third series DVD set.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 19, 2007 21:49:48 GMT
I pulled Blink off the DVD shelf this evening. Made the mistake of watching it with the light off. Brrrr.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 19, 2007 21:52:18 GMT
edit: adbot in relevant ad shocker! It's advertising the complete third series DVD set. It has to be right by accident on some occassion - the law of probability works for it there. :-) Karl |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 20, 2007 8:14:15 GMT
I also re-watched Blink last night. Damn it! I have to walk past some of those statues this morning! Must... not... blink...
AAARGH!
(Martin gets zapped back in time, i.e. to St Fagans.)
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 20, 2007 10:11:10 GMT
How far back did you end up Martin? It must have pained you to see civilisation make the same mistakes a second time.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 20, 2007 12:21:01 GMT
I, the Doctor, must visit these statues when next in Cardiff!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 20, 2007 18:30:36 GMT
I'll do my best, but can't promise anything. They tend to move around when you're not looking at them. I'm sure that lady with her kid and the workman in a cap were in a different part of Queen Street when they first appeared. The one outside City Hall is well-behaved, though. Maybe it has a CCTV camera pointed at it.
The good thing about getting zapped to St Fagans is that each house is from a different era, so it's quite easy to hop back to the present day without the need for a TARDIS.
Martin
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Post by legios on Dec 20, 2007 23:31:08 GMT
I'll do my best, but can't promise anything. They tend to move around when you're not looking at them. I'm sure that lady with her kid and the workman in a cap were in a different part of Queen Street when they first appeared. The one outside City Hall is well-behaved, though. Maybe it has a CCTV camera pointed at it. That'd make sense. Like the television audience a CCTV camera would count as "observed" on a quantum level. I fear that the only statue we have in the centre of Falkirk isn't within the field of view of a CCTV system, so it does get a slightly sideways look from me everytime I go past. Not that I completely distrust it, but always better to err on the side of caution right?......... Sort of riding the wave of history until you get beached back in the present, A handy riptide to be able to ride back. Otherwise it might be slightly tedious to have to take the long way back through space time at one second per second....... Karl |
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Post by KnightBeat on Dec 21, 2007 1:10:48 GMT
I also re-watched Blink last night. Damn it! I have to walk past some of those statues this morning! Must... not... blink... I was looking for Cardiff statues at the end of the episode and recognised several of them. Did I imagine it, or was the final shot of the Gareth Edwards statue in the shopping centre? |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 21, 2007 7:36:49 GMT
Didn't spot a rugby player myself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpbrNcRgqAThe clip misses out my favourite Cardiff statue, which was definitely there at the end of Blink, namely the one holding the branch outside City Hall:  Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 25, 2007 22:39:21 GMT
Ooh, that was cracking.
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 25, 2007 23:40:57 GMT
So what did everyone think of the christmas episode? Felt like it was relying on a lot of cliches and not bringing a lot new to the formula. Still entertaining enough though. And at least Tate wasn't in it.
Andy
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Dec 26, 2007 15:28:51 GMT
I thought the ship would have been better named the Poseidon, cos that's where a good half of the script came from! Twas fun though. Poor Kylie...
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2007 15:35:50 GMT
For the most part, I thought it was highly entertaing tosh. Yes it was indeed Return to the Beyond of the Poseidon Adventure but it isn't the first time Who has, ah, 'borrowed' from other sources. It had some flaws. The reveal of Max-in-a-box made me guffaw out loud. It looked like something from Frontos circa, er, 1984. And Max's plan itself was deeply uninteresting despite a good turn from the actor. Also as much as I like Kylie, she barely registered her presence on screen most of the time. And did anyone else think the amount of folk falling to their deaths was a bit gratuitous? Especially in an episode designed to go out on Chrimbo Day. I also thought the implication that the Host's were decapitating people was at the edge of acceptable levels of violence for a show with a large children's audience. Astrid's death was unintentionally hilarious as it was the 2nd time in the story a character had heroically fallen to their death to Save The Doctor. The less said about the comedy Queen (who, tonally, had walked in from a completely different show) the better.
Which sounds like I didn't enjoy it. I did find it quite fun overall. Just these niggly things stopped it from being a great episode. Some fine manic acting from Tennant at the Titanic wheel as it fell through the atmosphere, Geoffrey Palmer and Bernard Cribbens were great in their small roles and the meteor sequence was extremely well staged and built up to. The music was great, some nice writing in the last 10 minutes in particular and a genuinely iconic moment when the Doctor was hoisted aloft by two of the Hosts. Clive Swift stole the show from under everyone's feet though. I wanted Mr Cooper to be the next companion! I would not say no to him featuring again.
Pleasingly, Tate did not annoy me in the series 4 trailer.
Overall, much better than The Runaway Bride but not as good as The Christmas Invasion. 7/10
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2007 19:33:10 GMT
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Post by Gav on Dec 26, 2007 23:07:19 GMT
Doctor Who sentenced Kylie to an eternity floating alone in the vast cold vacuum of space.
Harsh.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2007 23:27:56 GMT
And if it had been Hartnell Doc, he would have wagged his finger at her too.
-Ralph
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Post by gloriana on Dec 27, 2007 9:37:25 GMT
I'm with Ralph on this one. Weren't too bad. Was an awful lot of death/destruction for a Chrimbo episode. I was hoping that I was going to get some good entertainment in the middle of the bookmark of misery that is Eastenders. Hey ho!
rowan
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 27, 2007 12:35:04 GMT
On a tangent, I watched Time-Flight with the commentary track by Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding and everyone's favourite mad old uncle, Eric Saward. Time-Flight itself is renowned, both by fans and many of the folk who worked on it as being utterly terrible. It is pretty dull. But it is elevated to greatness by the commentary, one of the most entertaining I've heard on many a DVD. It's just hilarous. Sutton begs for chocolate, Saward pisses himself in a corner while Fielding winds him up more and more as it goes on and Davison trowells on a layer of dry wit on top it all. "Now! Now! Everyone! Let's try to be positive!" he yells by episode 2 but within minutes everyone is giving the story a damn good kicking again in a most fun manner.
A good bit is near the end of episode 1 when the Doctor and co think they are at Heathrow Airport but are in fact Back In The Mists Of Time. "Now the illusion here," comments Davison, "is that we think we're on film, but actually we're on video."
Yes, it's the kind of gag only uber-geeks will get but I damn near pissed myself at that point.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 27, 2007 14:07:44 GMT
Christmas special was enjoyable tosh and definitely better than last year's.
Popped on to OG to laugh at the wild speculation for themes and arcs for Series Four.
I did like Clive Swift's line to the Doctor about if you could choose who lived or died you'd be a monster. Pretty much sums up a few events in his life - The Time War, the destruction of Skaro and so on and so forth.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 27, 2007 14:42:12 GMT
On that note, Max-in-a-box had a good line about the Doctor: "All that banter yet not a word wasted." Pretty much sums up the 10th Doctor's approach to danger.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 27, 2007 15:01:43 GMT
Fair enough if it's not to your tastes. With the ratings Who pulls in though (over 12 million for the Chrimbo special) I doubt the BBC would have any reason to move RTD on, from their point of view.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 27, 2007 19:08:10 GMT
He's almost certainly going. Have you heard his interviews of late, the bit at the end of the S3 video diary etc ?
Although much of RTD's actual writing hasn't been to my taste - I liked Rose, Tooth & Claw, the S2 end 2 parter, Smith and Jones and this Christmas special out of what he has done - the overall management of the show has been pretty good. It could have died on it's arse back in 05.
I'd like to see Stephen Moffat in charge.
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